Last weekend in Las Vegas, Scottish star Josh Taylor made history by becoming one of the few men to unify every major title in his respective division in the four belt era.
Taylor won a twelve round unanimous decision over Jose Ramirez to unify the IBF, WBC, WBA, WBO junior welterweight titles.
The next step for Taylor is looking like a mandatory defense against the WBO’s top man, Jack Catterall, who stepped aside to allow the Ramirez fight to take place.
Manchester legend Ricky Hatton, a former two division world champion, is in awe of what Taylor accomplished for British boxing.
“It was unbelievable what Josh accomplished. It was a great day for British boxing and for Scottish boxing and I still think the best is yet to come from him,” Hatton told Metro.
“It will be interesting to see what he does next and maybe the next move will be to move to welterweight.”
One name that Hatton would like to see Taylor face is unified lightweight world champion Teofimo Lopez.
Lopez, who makes a mandatory defense on June 19 against George Kambosos, has expressed his desire to face Taylor for all of his titles.
“Or, you’ve got what would be a good fight against Teofimo Lopez, he could move up from lightweight no problem. Then Josh is getting his defining fight in the sense that it is against a real big name,” Hatton said.
“He has won five world titles, is undisputed super lightweight champion but then you get the defining fights that follow.
“I had my first world title against Kostya Tszyu before Luis Collazo, Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao. He has won all the titles, now he is going to get that big defining name. And no one deserves it more than him.”